Despite recent reforms, it remains too difficult for many long-time residents to become citizens.

But recent reforms suggest that real change could be in prospect.

A more recent constitutional reform changed the rules for succession to equal primogeniture.

Particular attention has been paid to improving systems in recent reforms.

The experts also said that recent reforms of the national security apparatus have done little to make Americans safer.

Until recent reforms, the military had been accused of systematic human rights abuses.

I understand it to be, first and foremost, a message to Turkey that we are happy with the recent democratic reforms there.

She added that personal travel restrictions - not the recent reforms in other East bloc countries - had finally motivated her to leave.

Banking officials point to recent reforms, like an increase in the amount of bank branches that foreign companies can set up.

This point can perhaps also be illustrated by some of the recent legislative reforms of company law.